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Calculation of child support is controlled by the Tennessee Child Support Guidelines. Some of the things taken into consideration when calculating child support are:
- Number of days per year that each parent has visitation with your children.
- Gross income of the parties.
- Health insurance costs related to the child.
- Work-related child care costs.
- Uncovered medical expenses.
- Other qualifying children living in the home of the parents.
- Other qualifying children not living in the home of the parents and child support paid for those children.
- If a previous child support order exists, whether a significant variance exists between the old amount of child support and the new child support amount (generally speaking, a 15% = significant variance).
The items listed above are a generalization of child support calculation. There are a number of other factors to consider before a final calculation can be obtained (i.e. self-employment deductions, sources of income, imputation of income, deviations from child support, etc.)
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